The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins.

The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users. It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series. It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.

This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding, conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media handling functionality to the core. You need the GStreamer core module to make them work. The versions do not need to match exactly, as long as all of them are in the 0.8.x series.

The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module. If you want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins. An FFmpeg-based colorspace element has been added to the Plugins however.

DevelopersCVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org. You can browse the gst-plugins repository. All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary.

ApplicationsThe GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found under /system/gstreamer/0.8. GNOME Applications should use the gconf library, as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings.